Bunny Yeager Camera Negative Pin-up 1950s Wild Carolyn Lee in Bikini With Snake

Description

ITEM: You are bidding on just a bizarre and crazy cool camera negative from 1954 taken by Bunny Yeager. The model is the very attractive and alluring sometimes Yeager model Carolyn Lee seen posed in a bikini, with a large black snake coiled around her arm... Bunny frequently used the term "sparkle", when working with her live models - telling them it was now time to "sparkle" as she shot frames, seemingly Ms. Lee did not get the memo. Only darkness has the power indeed...
Measures 2 1/4" square.
CONDITION: Fine archived condition from the estate of Bunny Yeager. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: For this listing only, Grapefruit Moon Gallery represents that the original camera negative/transparency ("Original") comes with United States copyright. The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that the Original is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statutes or common law. Grapefruit Moon Gallery makes no representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United States. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer's own professional advisors.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is the proud home of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as "the world’s greatest pin-up photographer" by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.
Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props, cameras, model release forms, technical notes, as well as displays and exhibition mounted large photographs from her Miami showroom. Yeager’s work is both groundbreaking and technically brilliant; one of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she captured the female body with a beauty, strength, power, and emotionality unparalleled by the leering lens of many of her male contemporaries.
Keep a close eye on our listings for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.